Kerry Condon won Best Supporting Actress for The Banshees of Inisherin
Irish actors Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan are among the early winners of the Bafta Film Awards, held in London.
They received Best Supporting Actress and Best Actor awards, respectively, for The Banshees of Inisherin, which will be honored with 10 awards at the ceremony.
Dublin-born Keoghan dedicated his award to “the kids from around the area I come from who dream of being something”.
Condon thanked director Martin McDonagh “and my horses and my dogs.”
“Thank you for all the parts you’ve given me throughout my career,” Condon said in her speech to McDonagh. “You make me so proud to be an Irish woman.”
Carey Mulligan was incorrectly announced as the Best Supporting Actress winner before being corrected to Condon.
Deaf actor Troy Kotsur, who won a Bafta for Coda last year, was using sign language and an interpreter to announce the winner when the mix-up occurred.
Dublin-born Keoghan dedicated his Bafta to children from his area
Previous winners also include All Quiet On The Western Front, which took home Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography and Non-English Language Film.
The Netflix World War I epic is a new film adaptation of the 1928 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which tops the nominations.
There were also wins for Elvis (Best Casting), Everything Everywhere All At Once (Best Editing) and Aftersun (Outstanding British Debut).
The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All At Once each have 10 nominations, closely followed by Elvis with nine.
The ceremony, moderated by Richard E Grant, will be broadcast on BBC One from 19:00 GMT.
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Nominees such as Viola Davis, Colin Farrell, Ana de Armas, Paul Mescal and Cate Blanchett are among those in attendance at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
In addition to the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards, the Baftas are among the top-class events of the film awards season, which culminates in March with the Oscars.
In the UK, the Baftas are the most prestigious film awards ceremony and can often provide the most reliable indication of who might ultimately triumph at the Oscars.
Last year, the Oscars for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress went to Will Smith, Troy Kotsur and Ariana DeBose respectively, just two weeks after they received the same awards in the UK.
The best Bafta nominees
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14 – All quiet on the western front
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10 – Everything Everywhere at Once and The Banshees by Inisherin
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9 – Elvis
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5 – Tare
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4 – Aftersun, The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick, The Whale and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Sandy Powell becomes the first costume designer to be awarded the scholarship, the Bafta’s highest honor.
The grant was axed last year following a scandal involving 2021 recipient Noel Clarke, who was accused of sexual harassment shortly after receiving the award. Clarke said he has vehemently denied the allegations.
It’s going to be another royal night with the Prince and Princess of Wales. Prince William has been President of the Baftas since 2010.
At the ceremony, Dame Helen Mirren will also pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who she has memorably portrayed on screen. Dame Helen won both the Bafta and Oscar awards for Best Actress in 2007 for The Queen.
Cinematic Leaders
“The Banshees of Inisherin,” starring Colin Farrell and directed by Martin McDonagh, won two Golden Globes last month
Nothing new in the West, leading this year’s Bafta nominations at 14 is a brutally violent but critically acclaimed film that examines World War I through the eyes of a young and idealistic German soldier.
There is competition in the major categories Everything everywhere at oncewhich follows a laundromat owner who discovers alternate versions of herself in the multiverse.
The original sci-fi adventure has 10 Bafta nominations, as well as Banshees of Inisherin, which tells the story of two best friends who live on a remote island and throw each other out.
Just behind is with nine nominations elvisa cradle-to-grave biopic of singer Elvis Presley, and tarwho garnered five nominations for his portrayal of a renowned orchestra conductor accused of abuse.
Aftersun, The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick, The Whale And Good luck to you Leo Grande all have four nominations each.
British talent
Toby Jones and Olivia Colman star in Empire of Light, nominated for Outstanding British Film
The Baftas have almost the same award categories as other ceremonies, including the highest profile awards such as Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director, as well as a whole host of technical categories.
But the UK ceremony also has additional categories specifically designed to recognize British talent.
just a movie – The Banshees by Inisherin – has competed for both Best Picture and Outstanding British Film.
The other nominees in the latter category include After sunin which Paul Mescal plays a young man grappling with fatherhood while on a summer vacation with his daughter, and realm of lightSir Sam Mendes’ autobiographical homage to cinema.
Lifein which Bill Nighy plays an aging civil servant who changes his lifestyle after receiving a terminal diagnosis is also nominated alongside AI robot drama Brian And Charles and the film adaptation of Matilda The Musical.
Blue Jean is nominated for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
The entertaining whodunit See how they run and the psychological period drama The wonder are also in contention for the British prize.
The category is completed by Good luck to you Leo Grandein which Emma Thompson plays an older woman who pays a younger man for sex, and the swimmerswhich tells the true story of a migrant who swam to the British coast after the engine of the boat she was traveling on broke down.
Aftersun and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande are also nominated for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer electrical disease, rebellion and blue jeans.
A new host
Richard E Grant is hosting the Bafta Film Awards this year
Actor Richard E Grant is hosting this year’s ceremony, following in the footsteps of last year’s host Rebel Wilson.
Grant was last nominated for a Bafta himself in 2019 for his performance opposite Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
He has since starred in the film adaptation of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and last year published a memoir on the last year of his late wife Joan Washington’s life.
Meanwhile, This Morning presenter Alison Hammond is hosting the Bafta Studio, which the BBC One show describes as an “immersive full-access experience”.
The Baftas come between the Golden Globes, which took place last month, and the Oscars, which take place on March 12 and mark the conclusion of the film awards season.
The Bafta Film Awards will be broadcast on BBC One on Sunday from 19:00 GMT.
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